MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — After seating a jury late Monday evening, opening statements began first thing Tuesday in the murder trial of Ashley Benefield. The 32-year-old mother and former ...

Hitching breaths and high-pitched sobs rang out in the courtroom Friday as Ashley Benefield recalled the evening she shot and killed her estranged husband, Doug Benefield. "I thought he was going to ...

Former ballerina Ashley Benefield is on trial this week in the death of her estranged husband in a case local media has dubbed the “Black Swan murder trial.” Her attorneys say she acted in ...

Podcast episode talks about conviction of Ashley Benefield, who says she was defending herself from domestic violence Two of Ashley Benefield’s fellow ballerinas have opened up about seeing her ...

Eva was still in high school when her mother died suddenly of a heart attack. Within a year, her father marries Ashley Byers, a twenty-four-year-old former bikini model he has only known for a few ...

An ex-ballerina accused of killing her estranged husband was convicted of manslaughter by a Florida jury late Tuesday, closing out the dramatic case local reporters had dubbed the “Black Swan murder ...

A former ballerina in Florida is standing trial nearly four years after the shooting death of her estranged husband in a case dubbed by some news media as the "Black Swan murder trial." Ashley ...